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META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020

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Milestones and History

The META-VISION process within META-NET started in early 2010, its main aim was to produce our Strategic Research Agenda. Hundreds of representatives from academia, industry, official institutions, policy makers, politicians, journalists and the language communities have contributed to this process (see Key Contributors). This page provides an overview of the meetings at which the SRA or important components on the way towards the SRA have been presented and discussed (key meetings marked in bold typeface). Important milestones in the process towards the SRA include five documents: the three Vision Reports prepared by the three domain-specific Vision Groups (see figure at the bottom of this page), a general Vision Paper, and a Priority Themes Paper in which the technology visions are specified in a more concrete way. All reports, papers and discussions that took place in the process have been reflected in the Strategic Research Agenda.

  1. FLaReNet Forum, Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 11/12, 2010
  2. Language Technology Days 2010, Luxembourg, March 22/23, 2010
  3. EAMT 2010, Saint-Raphael, France, May 27/28, 2010
  4. theMETAnk, Berlin, Germany, June 4/5, 2010
  5. Translingual Europe 2010, Berlin, Germany, June 7, 2010
  6. Localization World, Berlin, Germany, June 8/9, 2010
  7. Multisaund Seminar, Istanbul, Turkey, June 16-18, 2010
  8. Vision Group “Text Translation and Localisation” (1st meeting), Berlin, Germany, July 23, 2010
  9. Vision Group “Media and Information Services” (1st meeting), Paris, France, Sep. 10, 2010
  10. Vision Group “Interactive Systems” (1st meeting), Paris, France, Sep. 10, 2010

The three phases of the META-VISION process

Steps towards the Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020

  1. ICT 2010, Brussels, Belgium, September 27-29, 2010
  2. Vision Group “Text Translation and Localisation” (2nd meeting), Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 29, 2010
  3. Vision Group “Interactive Systems” (2nd meeting), Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 5, 2010
  4. Languages and the Media 2010, Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2010
  5. HLT: The Baltic Perspective, Riga, Latvia, October 7/8, 2010
  6. LISA Forum Europe, Budapest, Hungary, October 13, 2010
  7. Vision Group “Media and Information Services” (2nd meeting), Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 15, 2010
  8. EFNIL 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov. 3, 2010
  9. Interact Presidential Summit, Moffett Field, USA, Nov. 8-9, 2010
  10. META Technology Council (1st meeting), Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 16, 2010
  11. Language question in research: English vs. national languages?, Finnish Parliament, Helsinki, Nov. 17, 2010
  12. META-FORUM 2010: “Challenges for Multilingual Europe”, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 17/18, 2010
  13. Oriental-Cocosda 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal, Nov. 24-25, 2010
  14. The International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT), Paris, France, Dec. 2/3, 2010
  15. Meeting of the LT Berlin working group, Berlin, Germany, Dec. 9, 2010
  16. Language Technology for Multilingual Applications, European Parliament, Luxembourg, Jan. 27, 2011
  17. Opening of German/Austrian W3C Office at DFKI Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Feb. 10, 2011
  18. Japanese Workshop for Machine Translation, Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 23, 2011
  19. Meeting of Representatives of European Language Councils, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 08, 2011
  20. TRALOGY, Paris, France, March 3/4, 2011
  21. Vision Group “Interactive Systems” (3rd meeting), Rotterdam, The Netherlands, March 28, 2011
  22. Vision Group “Media and Information Services” (3rd meeting), Vienna, Austria, April 1, 2011
  23. Meeting of the LT Berlin working group, Berlin, Germany, April 4, 2011
  24. W3C Workshop, Content on the multilingual web, Pisa, Italy, April 5, 2011
  25. Vision Group “Translation and Localisation” (3rd meeting), Prague, Czech Republic, April 7/8, 2011
  26. Attensity Forum 2011, Berlin, Germany, May 6, 2011
  27. META Technology Council (2nd meeting), Venice, Italy, May 25, 2011
  28. FLaReNet Forum, Venice, May 26-27, 2011
  29. Multisaund Seminar, Bursa, Turkey, June 13-14, 2011
  30. META-NET Workshop at ICANN 2011: Context in Machine Translation, Espoo, Finland, June 14, 2011
  31. Speech Processing Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel, June 21-22, 2011
  32. META-FORUM 2011: “Solutions for Multilingual Europe”, Budapest, Hungary, June 27/28, 2011
  33. Media for All, London, June 29-July 1, 2011
  34. EUROLAN 2011 Summer School, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Aug. 28-Sep. 4, 2011
  35. Interspeech 2011, Firenze, Italy, Aug. 28-31, 2011
  36. RANLP 2011, Hissar, Bulgaria, Sep. 12-14, 2011
  37. Multilingual Web Workshop, Limerick, Ireland, Sep. 21/22, 2011
  38. ML4HMT Workshop at MT Summit, Xiamen, China, Sep. 19-23, 2011
  39. Workshop Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe at GSCL 2011, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 27, 2011
  40. GSCL 2011: Multilingual Resources and Multilingual Applications, Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 28-30, 2011
  41. META Technology Council (3rd meeting), Berlin, Germany, Sep. 30, 2011
  42. Workshop on IPR and Metadata by META-NORD, Helsinki, Finland, Sep. 30, 2011
  43. META-NET Network Meeting and General Assembly, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 21/22, 2011
  44. NPLD Assembly, Eskilstuna, Sweden, Oct. 25/26, 2011
  45. EFNIL 2011, London, UK, Oct. 26, 2011
  46. Oriental-Cocosda 2011, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Oct. 26-28, 2011
  47. SIMC 2011 International Maaya Symposium on Multilingualism in the Cyberspace, Brasilia, Brasil, Nov. 7-9, 2011
  48. IJCNLP 2011, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nov. 9-13, 2011
  49. ML4HMT-11 Workshop, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 19, 2011
  50. LTC 2011, Poznan, Poland, Nov. 25-27, 2011
  51. GALA Conference, Monaco, March 26-29, 2012
  52. EACL 2012, Avignon, France, April 23-27, 2012
  53. CESAR Roadshow Event, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2, 2012
  54. LREC 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, May 21-27, 2012
  55. CESAR Roadshow Event, Bratislava, Slovakia, June 7/8, 2012
  56. Multilingual Web Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, June 11, 2012
  57. META Technology Council (4th meeting), Brussels, Belgium, June 19, 2012
  58. META-FORUM 2012: “A Strategy for Multilingual Europe”, Brussels, Belgium, June 20/21, 2012
  59. CHAT 2012 Workshop, Madrid, Spain, June 22, 2012
  60. Language, Technologies and the Future of Europe, Riga, Latvia, September 21, 2012
  61. Linguistic Technologies in the Research in Romania and in the Diaspora, Bucharest, Romania, September 26/27, 2012
  62. CESAR Roadshow Event, Warsaw, Poland, September 27/28, 2012
  63. Workshop on LT and Innovation, Oslo, Norway, October 15, 2012
  64. EFNIL 2012, Budapest, Hungary, October 25/26, 2012
  65. CESAR Roadshow Event, Belgrade, Serbia, October 29, 2012
  66. European Languages in the Age of Technology – quo vadis?, Vilnius, Lithuania, November 14, 2012
  67. Workshop The Portuguese Language in the Digital Age, Lisbon, Portugal, November 16, 2012
  68. SIMC III, Conference of the Maaya World Network for Linguistic Diversity, Paris, France, November 21-23, 2012
  69. Workshop A Roadmap for the Digital Survival of Maltese, Malta, November 24, 2012
  70. Translating and the Computer Conference, London, UK, November 29/30, 2012